A labourer who struck a traffic warden with a stone as she directed traffic outside a San Fernando school has been jailed for nine months. Adam McFarlane, 29, of Victoria Village, San Fernando, was found guilty of assaulting Candice Capriata by San Fernando Magistrate Alicia Chankar on Monday.
"What you did was wrong. You cannot arbitrarily take something and throw it at someone. There is no excuse for that behaviour," Chankar told McFarlane. He was arrested by Corporal Carter and charged with assaulting Capriata last week Wednesday at Coffee Street, San Fernando. Capriata told the court at around 7.30 am she was standing near the Grant Memorial Presbyterian School when she was hit in the head with a stone.
She said she made a report to a policeman and later pointed out McFarlane to the officer. McFarlane said he was at Library Corner when he saw a group of traffic wardens look at him as he was about to cross the street, and another traffic warden took a photo of him. He said he walked to Carlton Centre and the traffic wardens followed him. Shortly after he boarded a maxi taxi, he was arrested.
